I am constantly amazed at the range of voices Dick Hill uses. Have you listened to any of Dick Hill’s other performances before? How does this one compare? I would recommend this book to my friends that read mystery thriller fiction. Would you recommend Sleep No More to your friends? Why or why not? I loved that I was able to escape the real world for a few hours. What did you love best about Sleep No More? Now you! Put that book credit right back in your wallet and run, run away! They all come off as mindless, pouting little brats. ![]() He is fine with male voices, but the adult women have the same silly falsetto voice as the seven year old girl. And now the absolute worst: the narrator. It becomes as dull as a character who keeps recounting trips to the supermarket, describing the size and the color of every item they put into their shopping cart at the supermarket, and in what order, and the problem is, they're going shopping every single day. They are actually critical to the story, but they just go on and on and on and then they keep happening over and over again. Now, I like a good sex scene as much as the next person, and they're the best written parts of the book - but I started wanting to fast forward through them. And then, as others have noted, there are the sex scenes. I actually trudged through to the end hoping it would all be explained, all the way up until I got to "Audible hopes you have enjoyed". Alas, even the words "logical explanation" never turn up again. And you keep listening, waiting for it to unfold, confident that a skillful, solid storyteller like Iles who has steered you around so many corners isn't going to leave you in this narrative ditch he's driven you into. As people tend to end up doing when Things Happen, Waters finds himself telling the whole story to a lawyer, who advises him to ignore the supernatural, Fringe-like explanation and find the logical one. Problem is, old girlfriend herself has been dead for the past ten years, and the heavenly body she is supposed to be inhabiting now is ten years younger than hers would have been. Yes, that would be the college girlfriend who tried to kill him, OK tried to kill him twice. Once everybody has their clothes off she tells him that she's actually his old college girlfriend. He spots a gorgeous woman at his daughter's soccer game, so gorgeous she just about drops him in his tracks, and next you know she's hunting him down like he's a six point buck. John Waters - the name made me giggle, which wasn't an auspicious start - is a happily married oil man with a seven year old daughter and an antebellum mansion. Shakespeare let Julius Caesar leave the house and head over to the Roman Senate on the Ides of March, and we know how THAT turned out. They are tightly, even dizzingly plotted, even if sometimes someone is about to do something so eyepoppingly stupid you want to yell out "hey! Little blonde cheerleader! Do NOT open that back door to see if someone's really out there! For God's sake, you're babysitting!!!" You can forgive that, though. Some minor characters in one book become major characters in another, or vice versa. ![]() They're all set in the same universe, in Mississippi or New Orleans, and you start to feel like if you woke up tomorrow morning in Natchez, you'd head right over to the Trace, and if you were in New Orleans, no problem locating the FBI field office on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. James shows her expert control of the short-story form, conjuring motives and scenarios with complete conviction, and each with a satisfying twist in the tail.I'm not a big mystery suspense reader, but I've been on a Greg Iles binge in the past five weeks. The punishments inflicted on the guilty are fittingly severe, but here they are meted out by the unseen forces of natural justice rather than the institutions of the law. Bullying schoolmasters receive their comeuppance, unhappy marriages and childhoods are avenged, a murder in the small hours of Christmas Day puts an end to the vicious new lord of the manor, and, from the safety of his nursing home, an octogenarian exerts exquisite retribution. ![]() ![]() The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these perfectly formed stories, and this companion volume contains a further six, published here together for the first time.Īs the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales.
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